The purpose of the PipelineML SWG is to develop an open extensible
standard intended to enable the interchange of pipeline data between
parties, disparate systems and software applications without loss of
accuracy, density or data resolution and without need for conversion
between intermediate or proprietary formats.

The initial membership of the PipelineML SWG will consist of the
following OGC member representatives, who have extensive education and
experience in oil and gas pipeline issues:

John Tisdale* Enterprise Products

Terry Strahan Morris P. Hebert, Inc.

Eric Klein Global Information Systems

* John Tisdale is the SWG Convener.

The
initiators encourage comments on the charter and invite participation in
the OGC PipelineML Standards Working Group. You may send comments to
charter-requests [at] opengeospatial.org.

In November 2013 the OGC and the PODS Association, Inc. (“PODS”) agreed
to work together to identify enhancement opportunities between the
advanced geospatial interoperability concepts developed within the OGC's
consensus standards process and the PODS Association's widely used PODS
standard and data model. The PipelineML SWG is a result of this
cooperation.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies,
government agencies, research organizations, and universities
participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available
geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that
"geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and
mainstream IT. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.